Elihu Burritt (1810–79)

American social reformer, writer, and linguist. Published Christian Citizen, 1846–51. Founded the League of Universal Brotherhood, a pacifist group, after his arrival in England in 1846; organised a series of peace conventions in Europe, 1848–51. Campaigned in England and America for low overseas postage rates. Appointed US consular agent at Birmingham, 1865. Returned to America in 1869.